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Goodnight-Loving trail
- created in 1866 by Charles Goodnight and Oliver Loving.
- them + 18 cowboys drove 2000 cattle to west to sell cattle for 4x profit compared with texas
- 1868 Loving returned to texas and sold remaining cattle to John Ilif
- goodnight continued to drive cattle to mining towns and made deal with Iliff to drive cattle to union pacific railroad to be transported east to west
- 1876 goodnight was successful and inspired others to use the trail